Where is Clemenceau? Where are Gambetta, Jaures, Briand, Poincare? These great figures already seem to belong to a distant past.
Frederic Hoffet, Psychanalyse de Paris
In a time of small men, however parlous the time, the small men carry on, sometimes gamely. Last week France's durable Premier Joseph Lanielwhose government has lasted for almost seven months, longer than the average for the Fourth Republicmounted the eight carpeted steps to the National Assembly's rostrum, put on gold-rimmed glasses and read a 45-minute speech. Purpose: to win a vote of confidence so that Laniel's...